2.England expects that every man will do his dutyquote a phrase used by Lord Nelson to his men just before the Battle of Trafalgar
3.England is a nation of shopkeepersquote a phrase from a work by Napoleon Bonaparte
4.If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is forever Englandthink only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England If I should diequote part of the poem The Soldier by Rupert Brooke which is associated with a very romantic image of England
5.lie back and think of Englanda phrasebelieved to have been used by Victorianteachers and mothers when they advisedyoung women about what to do when their husbands had sex with them. The phrase is often used humorously now when something is happening to a person and they do not like it but have to accept it.
6.There’ll always be an Englandthe title and first line of a patrioticsong
7.this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Englandthis earth, this realm, this England this blessed plotquote a phrase from Shakespeare’s play Richard IIdescribing how beautiful England is
8somebody can/could do something for EnglandBritish EnglishBrE informal used to say that someone does or could do something a lot or to a great degree